across the frontier
Frequency: 7.515.0 per million words
Indicates movement from one side of the border to the other.
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Examples (10)
- The weapons were smuggled across the frontier.
- At dawn, the refugees slipped quietly across the frontier to safety.
- Do not attempt to drive across the frontier without your papers.
- Our convoy will move across the frontier as soon as the ceasefire holds.
- By nightfall, the troops had already pushed across the frontier.
- Traders regularly carry produce across the frontier during market week.
- She was caught trying to take a rare artifact across the frontier.
- Emergency supplies have been flown across the frontier to the flooded villages.
- Does this road run across the frontier, or does it turn back before the checkpoint?
- In spring, herds migrate across the frontier following greener pastures.